FALL HOUSE

Placing form on wilderness is a radical act. The challenge was to design a house in one of the most spectacular natural settings on the Pacific Coast that would both respect and transform the land.

The interior is a shelter, a refuge in contrast with the roughness and immense scale of the ocean and cliff.

A one-story concrete wing perpendicular to the house includes ground-floor bedrooms and a green roof: it is the boulder locking the house to the land. The lower volume, a double-cantilevered master bedroom suite, acts as a promontory above the ocean, offering breath-taking views from its floor-to-ceiling windows.

On the north, clear expanses of glass reveal ocean and coastline views; long strips of translucent channel glass dapple the light, playing on the sea’s shimmering surface.

Publications

2021/02 Environment911

2020/10 Arbitare

2016/08 World Architecture News

2016/08 Dezeen

2016/07 Embark Home and Decor

2015/10 Retreat: The Modern House in Nature, Book

2015/03 Vidro Impresso Brazil

2015/01 Revista CASAS

2015/06 Wohnrevue

2015/03 California Home + Design

2015/01 The East Architect's Newspaper

2014/08 Architectural Digest

2014/08 Architectural Knowledge Magazine 建筑知识

2014/09 The Plan

2014/06 Design Today

2014/05 The West Architect's Newspaper

2014/04 Houzz Tour

2014/04 Architectural Record: Record Houses, Cov

2011/08 Houzz Tour

Awards

2015 California Home and Design Award for Residential Architecture

2015 Architect's Newspaper Best of Design Award

2014 Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Award

2014 Grand Prix of Real Estate Award

2014 Architectural Record - Record Homes

2014 Builder's Choice and Custom Home Design Award

2014 Custom Home Design Award

2014 AIA Small Project Awards

2014 Special Mention in the Architizer A+ Awards

2013 AIA CC Excellence in Architecture Merit Award